Understanding Prison Staff [Hardcover]

The past decade has seen dramatic growth in every area of the prison enterprise. Yet our knowledge of the inner life of the prison remains limited. This book aims to redress this research gap by providing insight into various aspects of the daily life of prison staff. It provides a serious exploration of their work and, in doing so, will seek to draw attention to the variety, value and complexity of work within prisons. This book will provide practitioners, students and the general reader with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the contemporary issues and concerns facing prison staff.1. Introduction  Part 1: Prisons and Staff Issues  2. Personal reflections on prison staff  3. Prison staff: an international perspective  4. The experiences of black and minority ethnic prison staff  5. Prison officers and gender  6. Prison staff in the public and private sector  Part 2: Prison Officers  7. Industrial relations in prisons  8. Understanding prison officers: culture, cohesion and conflict  9. Staff and order in prisons  10. Creating ghosts in the penal machine: prison officer occupational morality and the techniques of denial  11. 'An inconvenient criminological truth': pain, punishment and prison officers  Part 3: Prison Managers  12. Prison governors: new public managers?  13. Change management in prisons  14. 'Resisting the scourge of managerialism': on the uses of discretion in late-modern prisons  15. The role of middle and first-line managers  Part 4: Prison Staff  16. The changing face of probation in prisons  17. Teachers and instructors in prisons  18. Psychologists in prisons  19. The prison drug worker  20. Health prol3¨